Social Change

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• The social dimension of environmental sustainability

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  Experientia collaborator Irene Cassarino went yesterday to the international “ The social dimension of environmental sustainability ” conference, organised at Turin’s Environment Park with the support of the City of Turin. The event, which focused on the importance of social aspects in achieving ...
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• Do you need leadership? Look inside.

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 487
  Leadership is using the smallest possible crisis to create the biggest possible effect, former 10 Downing Street head of strategy Geoff Mulgan told the Chain Reaction conference today. And the crisis we currently face is one of the biggest possible. Geoff Mulgan – now director of the Young Foundation - spoke of ...
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• Chain reaction: every flipchart tells a story

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 487
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• Where change starts

  
  Living with rats — Authority: 487
  What do I care passionately about in terms of community building or social change? That was the question Chris Grant posed at the Chain Reaction event this morning. In the corporate temple of Canary Wharfs Eastwintergarden, around 400 people - a quarter of them under the age of 21 - gathered around tables to share ...
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• Reminder: Good Food on KCTS

  
  Cook Local — Authority: 123
  The short version: Tomorrow, 11/12, on KCTS, the documentary Good Food ( official site ) will be shown. If you’re on Comcast, that’s channel 9 (standard def) or 109 (high def). If you’re on DirectTV, it’s channel 9 (standard def). If you’re on Dish Network, it doesn’t look like you actually get it. The ...
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• Same-Sex Marriage Rally in Sydney, November 28th

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 136
  On November 28th, there will be rallies across Australia in support of same-sex marriage, and I’m organising a Hoyden contingent for the Sydney rally, which will take place at Town Hall, at 1pm. I’ve created a facebook event for Hoydenizens who want to attend as a group, and I imagine that after the rally ...
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• The soft launch rebrand of Starbucks hits London

  
  Management Blog — Authority: 425
  Starbucks launches new design in London
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• Leadership, and “mob mentality”

  
  Thoughts and Ruminations — Authority: 110
  We read the following passage in our House prayers this morning, and I was struck by something.“Now many signs and wonders were done among the people through the apostles.  And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.  None of the rest dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem.  Yet more ...
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• Tell an Alternative Story

  
  thomas knoll — Authority: 119
  Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society. Rather you must tell a new powerful tale. One so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story. One so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole. One that even shines some ...
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• Book: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out Kids Living and Learning with New Media (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning) An examination of young people’s everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and ...
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• Lessons On Building Passionate Communities From Small Business

  
  danielpatricio.com — Authority: 99
  I have always said small businesses have the biggest potential in building communities through social media. It is not that they have the most to gain but rather that so many small business are built around real passionate communities. It is going to take a while for many larger brands to ‘get it’ since they have ...
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• History as Politics : Remembering the Berlin Wall

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 506
  Man straddles Berlin Wall in 1989. Photo from photosfan.com.History as politics, Politics as history: Remembering the Berlin WallBy Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / November 9, 2009...you are Americans and are meant to carry liberty and justice and the principles of humanity wherever you go, go out and sell goods that will ...
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• The human factor

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has published a 45-page discussion paper on how transforming healthcare to involve the public, i.e. the creation of people-powered public services, can save money and save lives. The National Health Service (NHS) needs to save £15 billion to ...
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• The internet is killing storytelling

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 431
  Narratives are a staple of every culture the world over. Yet, argues Ben Macintyre, writer at large for The Times (UK), they are disappearing in an online blizzard of tiny bytes of information. “The internet, while it communicates so much information so very effectively, does not really “do” narrative. The blog ...
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• Shooting the Sh*t with Real World, D.C.

  
  College Candy — Authority: 656
  The super cool Real World house in the Dupont neighborhood of D.C. I loathe checking my email.  I really do.  Because usually it just disappoints me by reminding me about my paper due the next day that I haven’t started or how my favorite band is playing the weekend that I happen to be going home.  So when I ...
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• Social Entrepreneurship in “VC English”

  
  Ventures — Authority: 117
  Jim Fruchterman of Benetech Inc. presented a strikingly simple translation of the venture capital value equation for social entrepreneurs:
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• Is YouTube the end of parenting?

  
  Digital Rights - Sound and Fury — Authority: 123
  OK disclaimer nr 1: I have no children. Disclaimer nr 2: I fully expect to be flamed by my friends who do. The little I know about parenting is obviously going to be flawed and biased, but that fits into the rest of the postings on this blog. One of the “kodak moments” of parenting seems to be when fathers or ...
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• Karma is a Witch with a Capital “B”

  
  Mom on the Rise — Authority: 121
  photo credit: quinn.anya I’ve always believed in Karma . I knew pretty early on in life that what you give is what you get and no one can outrun Karma. What I learned later on as an adult is that Karma has a funny way of drop kicking you when you least expect. Take Carlton. I went to college with him and he ...
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• Treat yourself to the last days of the 2009 West Coast Chocolate Festival

  
  Tiny Bites Consulting — Authority: 106
  There’s a Chocolat Ce Soir ticket giveaway worth $250 at the bottom of this post so keep reading or skip straight to the contest details . In the beginning of October, Eagranie Yuh of The Well-Tempered Chocolatier mentioned that she was readying for her presentation at a local chocolate festival. ...
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• Keeping My Fire-Lessons Learned

  
  Entry Level Living — Authority: 403
  Last week I wrote about my current struggle in maintaining the passion that brought me to the sector. The comments and feedback have been wonderful and really pushed me to reflect more on what I do and why I do it.  Here are a few things I now know to keep in mind: Be deliberate about keeping and adding fire to ...
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